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Wolfram Alpha Pro now available, $4.99 a month will let you throw almost anything at it for analysis
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Wolfram Alpha has made some fairly big strides in its few short years of existence, but the so-called computational knowledge engine has now rolled out what founder Stephen Wolfram says is the "the single most important development for Wolfram Alpha since the original website launched in 2009." That development...
Wolfram Alpha Pro now available, $4.99 a month will let you throw almost anything at it for analysis
Apple’s Siri Drives 25 Percent Of Wolfram|Alpha Queries
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Yesterday knowledge engine Wolfram|Alpha announced an intriguing new paid service Wolfram|Alpha Pro. Gary Price wrote an overview of the new service, which will likely appeal to academics, data geeks and a range of other specialized users. Wolfram|Alpha is by no means a mainstream... Please visit Search Engine Land for the...
Siri accounts for 1/4 of Wolfram Alpha queries as search engine goes 'Pro'
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About one quarter of the queries to the "computational knowledge engine" Wolfram Alpha now come from the Siri voice assistant found in Apple's iPhone 4S....
Siri Caught Recommending The Nokia Lumia, Promptly Reprogrammed
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The Apple marketing machine has always thrived on organic media buzz. Devices like the iPad launch to such massive anticipation that whole TV news segments turn into commercials for the product, then hand off to on-the-scene reporters covering the line outside the Apple store, without the company paying a dime....
Wolfram Alpha Pro is "Freemium" Done Right
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Wolfram Alpha isn't the "Google killer" that many hyped it up to be prior to its 2009 launch. Instead, the self-described computational knowledge engine takes a completely different approach to letting users find and analyze information. Rather than scouring the Web and ranking everybody's pages in the order it thinks...
Wolfram|Alpha Pro launching this week
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Wolfram|Alpha’s founder explains the next big step in the evolution of the “knowledge engine,” which is touted to enable users to dig deeper than ever into its vast library and personalize their experiences....
Wolfram Alpha's computational knowledge engine's the thing
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Wolfram Alpha, a search engine that uses dynamic algorithms to return knowledge-based results rather than keyword-based results announced today that it has uploaded the entirety of Shakespeare's works to the site's database, so users can search the Bard's canon for facts about the texts. The fully-searchable breakdown of various...
Wolfram Alpha now lets you analyze Shakespeare’s plays
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Wolfram|Alpha now lets you analyze Shakespeare’s plays and other famous works of literature, such as Moby Dick and Great Expectations, the computational knowledge engine announced on its blog today. Besides general information on each book, the results also include advanced details, which can be broken down as you want. For...
Wolfram Alpha Launches Its First Desktop App
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Wolfram Alpha, the “computational knowledge engine,” just launched a desktop app for Windows 7 PCs through Intel’s AppUp store. After launching numerous iOS and Android apps (including for the B&N Nook and Amazon’s Kindle Fire), this is the first time Wolfram Alpha is introducing a dedicated desktop app for its...
Google’s Knowledge Graph shows it doesn’t just want you to search, it wants you to stay
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Earlier today Google announced its Knowledge Graph product, which it says will allow users to get information about things, people or places, instantly. It’s essentially an enhancement for Google Search that gives you, at least initially, a couple of tools right in the sidebar of your search results that give...
Wolfram Alpha releases first desktop PC app for Windows 7, makes homework even easier
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Have a habit of letting Wolfram Alpha do your math for you? Well, say hello to one more tool in your computational arsenal -- the electronic homework lackey self-described knowledge engine is now available as a Windows 7 desktop app for $2.99 at the Intel AppUp store. In addition...
Model the world with Wolfram’s new software for engineers
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The wise carpenter has a simple philosophy: measure twice, cut once. Wolfram, the uber-geek’s software company of choice and organization behind the WolframAlpha “computational knowledge engine,” takes a slightly different tack: test as many times as you want, build once. Today the Champaign, Illinois company announced SystemModeler. Showing the...
WolframAlpha's Stephen Wolfram Talks About New Paid Knowledge Engine (Video)
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Last week, when he was making the rounds of reporters showing off the new paid version of his “computational knowledge engine,” called WolframAlpha Pro, its eponymous creator Stephen Wolfram had a bit of a chat with me about where search and discovery on the Internet was going. The man...
3 fascinating (and pretty) portraits of personal life through data
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For most people, the only data they’ll ever really see about themselves are the pretty charts generated about their finances or weight loss by applications like Mint or Jawbone. Some people, however, take their personal data a little more seriously, meticulously tracking their lives for years, and then showing the world...
Wolfram Alpha can now analyze Shakespeare's plays and other famous works
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Wolfram Alpha has announced that its computational knowledge engine can now analyze literary works like Othello, Macbeth, Moby Dick, and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The system can provide responses to queries for information like the most frequent words in a work, number of words and sentences, number of unique...
With Google Now, Android Puts Apple's Siri To Shame (GOOG, AAPL)
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After Apple bought Siri a few years ago, many assumed it was the company's first step in a battle against Google's search business. It was a good assumption. But at All Things D's D8 conference in 2010, Steve Jobs tried to put that speculation to rest by saying Apple had...
Google Is Now a Graphing Calculator
www.readwriteweb.com
Google has decided to make its simple search box into yet another thing. It's now a WebGL-powered 3D graphing calculator. If you type in a two-variable function, Google's search box on the desktop will graph an animated, interactive, 3D plot right in your browser. Google is moving increasingly toward providing...
Wolfram Alpha Admits Mistake: Mobile Site is Back; iPhone App Down from $50 to $1.99
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Once upon a time, Wolfram Alpha tried to charge $50 for its iPhone app while, at the same time, offering a free iPhone-optimized mobile site. Then, the company shut down the mobile site of its "computational knowledge engine" altogether. Now, however, Wolfram is reversing this strategy and is not just...
WolframAlpha Drops iPhone App Price by 96% to $1.99, Offers Refunds
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Last year, WolframAlpha made waves with its $50 iPhone app; today the company is announcing a new overall strategy and its starting by launching a new mobile optimized website and dropping the price of the iPhone app to just $1.99. This is all part of WolframAlpha’s new strategy to...
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